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Rogue Talents

As a rogue gains experience, she learns a number of talents that aid her and confound her foes. Starting at 2nd level, a rogue gains one rogue talent. She gains an additional rogue talent for every 2 levels of rogue attained after 2nd level. A rogue cannot select an individual talent more than once.

Talents marked with an asterisk (*) add effects to a rogue's sneak attack. Only one of these talents can be applied to an individual attack and the decision must be made before the attack roll is made.

At 10th level, and every two levels thereafter, a rogue can choose an advanced talent in place of a rogue talent.

Skill Stunts: Talents with "Stunt" in the name are a new type of rogue talent. A rogue may select multiple skill stunts, each keyed to a different Dexterity- or Strength-based skill, but may not select the same one twice.

Unchained Rogue: Note that the talents from PPC:BoS may be selected by rogues, shadowdancers, and unchained rogues. They are highlighted in green to call them out for your convenience.

The first time each round that you deal sneak attack damage to an opponent, you can forgo sneak attack damage to distract the creature. The target must succeed at a Will save (DC = 10 + the number of sneak attackdice sacrificed + your Charisma modifier) or become distracted until the start of your next turn.

As a full-round action, the rogue can move up to her speed. If she successfully reaches a location that offers her cover or concealment, any creature observing her must attempt a Perception check opposed by the rogue'sStealth check. On a failed check, the observer loses track of the rogue and fails to note where she moved to. The rogue does not take a penalty on this Stealth check for moving up to her speed.

Attempt a Linguistics check to decipher a page of text as a full-round action instead of 1 minute, also when you attempt a Use Magic Device check to cast a spell from a scroll,
you are treated as though you have the minimum score in the appropriate
ability score to cast that spell, AND you can choose to add
your Int modifier to Use Magic Device skill checks instead of your Cha modifier.

Whenever the rogue strikes a foe from hiding, she can attempt a Bluff check as an immediate action (opposed by the target's Sense Motive or Perception check, whichever has a higher bonus) before rolling damage to convince the foe that another creature was the attacker.

You can feint against a foe within 30 feet that you have concealment (but not full concealment) from, using a ranged weapon and cause the opponent to lose his Dexterity modifier against your next melee or ranged attack.

Choose confused, shaken, or sickened when you gain this talent. When you have the selected condition and hit a creature with a melee attack that deals sneak attack damage, you no longer have that condition.

Gain Aklo, Aquan, Auran, Giant, Ignan, Sylvan, or Terran as a bonus language and can attempt a DC 15 Linguistics check to communicate with magical beasts and monstrous humanoids with which you do not share a common language.

When you successfully demoralize an opponent using the Intimidate skill or you perform a successful feint against an opponent, the opponent loses any morale bonuses and cannot benefit from any morale bonuses for 1d4+1 rounds.

Provide an adjacent ally the benefits of evasion instead of yourself, essentially halving the damage that ally would normally take. If you also have improved evasion you can attempt a secondary save against the ally's dmg. If successful, neither takes any damage.

This talent wards you and any objects you are holding or carrying vs. scrying effects. Whenever you are targeted by a scrying effect that allows a Will save, the caster must succeed at a CL check (DC = 15 + the rogue's class level).

When you successfully hit a target with a sneak attack in melee, you can choose to forgo your additional sneak attack damage to make the target more vulnerable to one of your allies adjacent to it. The first melee attack that ally makes against the target before the beginning of your next turn treats the target as flanked, even if your ally is not flanking the target. This has no effect on creatures you could not flank with that ally, even if the ally was properly positioned.

When you hit a creature with a melee weapon that deals sneak attack damage, a number of points of the damage dealt equal to the number of sneak attack dice rolled is cold damage. The remainder of the sneak attack damage and the normal weapon damage are unaffected.

When you and an adjacent ally are both in the area of an attack that requires a saving throw, you can take a –4 penalty on your saving throw to grant your ally a +4 bonus on his saving throw. You lose the evasion ability against this attack. If you have improved evasion, it is reduced to evasion for this attack instead.

When making a successful sneak attack against a creature with the ability to channel energy, the rogue may forgo 3d6 points of sneak attack damage to instead prevent the target from channeling energy for a number of rounds equal to half her rogue level.

You can use spell-trigger and spell-completion items as if the following spells were on a spell list to which he has access: greater invisibility, invisibility, and vanish (see description for additional effects).

Rogue: 1. Use Int as Wis to determine number of ki points in ki pool, plus 1/2 rogue level. Flanking bonuses gained in combat increase by +1 as long as you have at least one point in ki pool.Ninja: Increase flanking bonus as above but no other benefits.

May use Dex instead of Str on attack rolls with a light or one-handed weapon that you are proficient with and treat the selected weapon as a one-handed piercing weapon for all feats and class abilities that require such a weapon (such as a swashbuckler's or duelist's precise strike).

As a move action, the rogue can expend a mote of movement to teleport one unattended object within 25 ft. + 5 ft./2 rogue class levels to any other location within the same range, including into the rogue's hands. If used on any object attended by a creature, the subject gets a Will Save (DC 10+1/2 the rogue's class level + her Charisma modifier) to negate and the subject is aware something attempted to teleport the object. This is considered a spell-like ability with a caster level equal to the rogue's class level.

As a move action, the rogue can expend a mote of movement to create an extradimensional prison for one day per rogue class level where the rogue can store a helpless or wiling creature (without gear) touched in stasis. This is often done when a foe is granted an option between this type of imprisonment and death, a subject will submit to this effect. Willing targets cannot be tricked or magically compelled. This places the subject into a state of suspended animation.

As a swift action, the rogue can expend a mote of movement to teleport some part of a creatures body into the closest empty square chose by the jaunter, this deals 1d6 points of damage + 1d6 points of damage for every two rogue class levels. A successful Will Save (DC 10+1/2 the rogue's class level + her Charisma modifier) results in half damage. The actual damage type is subject to GM determination but the default is slashing, resulting from a portal slicing off a portion of the victims exterior, a failed save usually resulting in more internal injury but it is still subject to Damage Reduction unless it is overcome by magic and slicing weapons.

As a move action the rogue can expend a mote of movement to momentarily whisk herself off to another location within 100 ft. + 10 ft./rogue class level, returning to her previous location seconds later. Upon activating this ability, you instantaneously appear anywhere within the ability's range. You have enough time to perform a single standard action before you are transported back to where you were when you active the ability.

Increase the number of ki points you gain from the ki poolrogue talent to be equal to 1/2 your rogue level + your highest mental ability score modifier (Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma) and you can spend 2 ki points as a swift action
to gain the skill unlocks for one skill of your choice as appropriate
for the number of ranks in that skill. This benefit lasts for 1 minute.